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TIL in 2005, Roy E. Disney ousted then CEO Micheal Eisner for being timid in the theme park business, neglecting animation studios, fracturing relations with Pixar, instilling corporate mentality among employees, and turning Disney into a “rapacious, soul-less” conglomerate.

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0wV8v TIL in 1960 the US government formed a clandestine group of elite scientists called JASON. "The Jasons" meet in secret every summer and includes 11 Nobel Prize winners. Their report on the futility of tactical nuclear weapons may have saved a lot of lives during the Vietnam War.
neMAb TIL That serving sizes in the US just describe the average amount of food a person would eat 50 years ago, not how much is healthy to eat.
kOGV5 TIL Miles Davis improvised and recorded with four sidemen the soundtrack for Elevator to the Gallows while watching the movie for the first time.
E1Dwo TIL the oldest company in the world was a Buddhist Temple builder that had been in business continually for 1,428 years before succumbing to financial difficulties in 2006.
8K9P TIL If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets, due to how the fuel requirements for rockets scale.